APUSH period 2

Virginia

1607- Jamestown founded by Virgnia Company

House of Burgeness

Royal Colony

Cash Crop agriculture

Headright system

• Anglican

• Mostly men

Maryland

1632-1634 founded by Lord Baltimore

Act of Toleration

Haven for Caltholics

Identical to VA except Socially

Massachusetts

1630 - Founded by Puritans

Tax funded elementary schools, villages,

Migrate as family

Predestination

Mayflower compact

General addembly

subsistence farming

Connecticut

1636- Thomas Hooker founded hartford

Puritan/Cojgregationalist

Fundamental Orders of CT

Rhode Island

1636- Providence foynded by Roger Williams

Separation of church and state, allowed Jewish people in the colony

Religous Tolleration

Anne Huchinson

Providence- major port for slave trade

“Rhode Island Sewer”

Carolinas

1638- 8 nobles become Lord Proprietors or acarolinas

1729- Split into N+S Carolina

SC-

from food for weat indies to rice plantations

crash crop agriculture

Indigo

Barbadoes slave trade

NC- tobacco + small farms; some indentured servitude

New York

1664- Took over New Netherlands

Diverse

no legislative assembly until 1683

NYC- Key port

mixed big + small farms

Pennsylvania

1682- Philadelphia founded by William Penn

founded as haven for Quakers or society of Friends

Charter of Liberties

most diverse

fastest growing colony

Frame of government

bread basket colonies

Georgia

1732- James Oglethrope rounded Savannah Georgia as a penal colony; British crown wanted a buffer colony

Overwhelming male

outlawd acholocl and slavery

Eventually repealed; became mini SC

huge black population growth